This Week In History
November 29 - In 1877, Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph for the first time.
November 30 - In 1999, Exxon and Mobil signed a $73.7 billion agreement to merge, creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company at the time.
December 1 - In 1862, in his State of the Union Address, President Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
December 2 - In 1867, British Author Charles Dickens began his second American reading tour with a public reading at Tremont Temple in Boston, reading selections from his works, "A Christmas Carol" and "The Pickwick Papers."
December 3 - In 1984, more than 4,000 people died after a cloud of gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India.
December 4 - In 1909, The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, was founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
